The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
|
01/23/2008 09:57 AM
|
|
Alicia Keys
|
Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
|
|
01/20/2008 09:52 PM
|
|
Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
|
The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
|
|
01/16/2008 08:53 PM
|
|
Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
|
In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
|
|
01/15/2008 08:45 PM
|
|
Tom Baxter - Skybound
|
It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
|
|
01/14/2008 04:54 PM
|
|
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
|
It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
|
|
01/13/2008 03:16 PM
|
|
Chrisette Michele
|
Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
|
|
01/12/2008 02:31 PM
|
|
Sara Bareilles
|
As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
|
|
01/11/2008 02:27 PM
|
|
Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
|
“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 04:26 PM
|
|
Kanye vs Beyonce
|
Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
|
|
01/07/2008 01:42 PM
|
|
Fogerty’s Creative Revival
|
John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
|
|
|
Album: Preludes
That series of concert preludes the NSO commissioned was a genuinely interesting and diverse look at what was going on in American orchestral composition. Slatkin has shown an aptitude for the musical minimalism that you have championed -- Philip ... Japanese auto executives studied surveys that showed that the once youthful buyers of Camrys and Corollas, Accords and Preludes were now well into middle age. There was nothing shocking in this other than Toyota's fear that this generation saw its ... The first, "Les Preludes," is the best-loved of Franz Liszt's symphonic poems, even if it's never achieved the popularity of the Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Despite some boomy work from the wind sections early on, the orchestra gave a committed ... One may rue the overindulgences while still recognizing that the movements of the time were preludes to a necessary enlargement of democracy, freedom and moral seriousness. The good of this immense effort outweighs the bad, though - as with so many ... Guild offers opera preludes, gala and fashion show The Bradenton Opera Guild has a full schedule in January. Among the offerings: People who want to learn more about a production before attending Sarasota Opera performances can attend the guild's ... At 8 p.m. today and Saturday, the pair will perform a three-piece concert at The Grand, with David Amado, music director of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, conducting. The program includes Liszt's "Les Preludes," Rosza's "Sinfonia Concertante" and ... Award-winning pianist Spencer Myer, a 29-year-old graduate of The Juilliard School, will return to UT to kick off the UT School of Music’s Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series. He will perform a series of solos and three preludes among others on ... She is the soloist in a program that includes "Les Preludes Totentanz" by Franz Liszt and the Elgar Enigma Variations. Co Nguyen, who will conduct the 80-member symphony, said "This concert is going to be very exciting. Lara's going to play ... Although "Les Preludes" isn't in theme and variations form, it does have a long section in which the same melody is repeated many times continuously. Q: What do you want the audience to go away with at the end of the performance? A ... Four Preludes, Op. 23, and Sonata No. 2, Op. 36, by Rachmaninoff. Peter Takacs : Master class March 27 at 9:30 a.m. in Morphy Hall; recital on March 28. Alvin Chow and Angela Cheng : Master class (Cheng), May 3 at 11 a.m., Morphy Hall; joint recital, May ...
|
|
|
